Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Search Search    Forgiving Others and Yourself by Maxie Dunnam May 7, 2024 about the author Share the post: In my previous article, I made the claim that saying yes to forgiveness is the clearest claim that we are Christian. One of my heroes, Clarence Jordan, was my primary witness to that claim.  Clarence was a farmer and a New Testament Greek scholar. He wrote the Cotton Patch Paraphrase of the New Testament. He speaks ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Search Search    Temperance: Nothing Overmuch by Kim Reisman May 2, 2024 about the author Share the post: Scripture Focus: For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with excellence, and excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. For if these things ar ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Search Search    Personal and Social Righteousness by Kim Reisman April 30, 2024 about the author Share the post: Scripture Focus: We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s love be in that person? Dear children, let’s not ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions    The Clearest Witness That We Are Christian by Maxie Dunnam April 30, 2024 about the author Share the Post: I’ve written two previous articles on this general theme, saying yes to forgiveness. If you have not seen those articles, you can see them here and here. I make this claim now: saying yes to forgiveness is our clearest witness to the fact that we are Christian. Here is a powerful witness. It was 1921 in the South of Po ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions    From The Margins by Rob Haynes April 26, 2024 about the author Share the Post: Occasionally, a friend or family member will send me a piece they’ve found in the media about the “decline” of the Church. These articles, videos, podcasts, books, etc. talk about the increase in the notion of the irrelevance of the church in the lives of many in the United States and/or Europe. Usually, this is accompanied by some degree of anxi ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions    Biblical Justice by Kim Reisman April 25, 2024 about the author Share the Post: Scripture Focus: I will test you with the measuring line of justice and the plumb line of righteousness. Isaiah 28:17 (NLT)     While the classical idea of justice, giving each person their due, is important, it only scratches the surface of what justice actually means. The biblical sense of justice, what we call righteousness, goes mu ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions    When We Are Most Like Christ by Maxie Dunnam April 23, 2024 about the author Share the Post: In my previous article I made the claim saying yes to forgiveness is saying yes to God. I underscore that claim: We are most like Christ when we are doing what he did in his extravagant gift of love on Calvary…forgiving. I have a friend, Mary, a former Roman Catholic nun, who works as a program director for a Methodist Church. Her t ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions    Justice is a Natural Grace Marred by Sin by Kim Reisman April 11, 2024 about the author Share the Post: Scripture Focus: But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions    Saying Yes to Forgiveness by Maxie Dunnam April 10, 2024 about the author Share the Post: Recently This Week magazine reported an amazing story of a Pakistani election commissioner admitting that he had participated in what he called the “rigging” of a parliamentary election. “We converted losers into winners,” said Liaquat. He confessed that he couldn’t sleep after what he called “stabbing the country in the back.” He resi ..read more

Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions Menu Latest Articles Top Articles Authors Maxie Dunnam’s Perceptions    Justice: Giving Each Person Their Due by Kim Reisman April 5, 2024 about the author Share the Post: Scripture Focus: So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice. He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that ther ..read more